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Cranky, It doesn't operate faster. It operates instantly just due to physics. There is no lag. It is just energy put into or taken out of tons of spinning metal. The response after like 15 seconds isn't inertial but of governor valves opening up to pass more steam to increase generation...

System inertia I believe shouldn't be looked at as providing fault current because fault current is very reactive. I think the best way to think about system inertia is that it is conceptually something that provides or stores energy instantly when there is a difference between generation and...

gte447f, I am not saying you are right or wrong and I probably should be contacting the state boards to get a very specific interpretation. When I was going through archived threads, the point about architects hiring engineers to do work for them was one of the situations that made me feel...

By contracting house, I mean contracting agency where you hire on as an employee to them and then they have to do work for a client.

I understand your statement and don't think it is invalid. It is just the notion that engineering services aren't sold by intermediary parties is kind of flimsy when you have contract houses, service agreements, and other types of employment arrangements. I am not saying you are wrong and I...

Gte447f, How are service agreements or contract houses different?

The guy would being paying me hourly with a retainer. He does NERC, electrical grid compliance. He said he used to have a guy and that guy got a big project so no longer had time for him. I think the guy is running into a situation where he is small enough that he doesn't have full time work...

I have a guy that wants to be able to have engineering services available so that he can offer a complete package to his customers. It is looking like I want to setup a retainer type agreement so that he stays high priority in being able to get engineering services quickly for his clients. His...

When do you sign an NDA? I have someone that might want me to do work for them but it has never been spelled out nor has the means of compensation or anything. It feels like I am walking backwards into something without everything else being spelled out. I am fine with a scope that doesn't have...

High resistance grounding gets you many of the benefits of ungrounded systems without all the draw back. You have low fault current, can maintain operations, easier fault location, and all without having to insulate the system for transient overvoltages.

IRStuff, The point is to try things that are low risk and low commitment first. So, he gets another job and 3 months into it, he realizes that that didn't fix anything. Or he realizes his med school pipedream was better just as fantasy. Going to med school might be the cure but god damn it...

Strucpatholgst, If this was a passion, I would say go all for it if it was feasible without too many sacrifices. It might not be that but often people think it is. I think that before someone does something like this, they really need to figure out what they are missing from their current...

I am not you so I don't know how you evaluate certain things. I would strongly try to determine what you like about a job and try to fit it into a side gig or a related occupation. People get hung up on needing to do a certain thing and often when they get a chance to do that thing, it never...

Yeah, that is what I was expecting. It makes moving on the time overcurrent charts a little bit more complicated than sliding left and right.

How do microprocessor relays time their overcurrent elements when the fault current changes during the fault?

Engineering companies are never worth what people think they should be because they are not at all like passive wealth generating assets. In my opinion, yu should really consider the value of a company to be profits from its backlog. I have seen and heard of numerous cases of firms getting...

I wrote up some material that a company used for advertising. They want me to fill out a W-9 form. I am confused some about this because they bought a product from me not me selling my time to them. Can someone explain why they would do this? I don't pull a W-9 when plumber comes and fixes...

Mintjulep, No it wouldn't be ok but a group being outside of jurisdiction means that they don't have to care one bit about local law and regulations. It likely would be a waste of their time to even try to be compliant. They just keep fishing offering cheap work until someone bites .

Mintjulep, The location is important because it creates too many hurdles for any criminal prosecution or litigation. There is no reason for a foreign unlicensed firm to give two flips about any of the work they do in the same manner as someone living on U.S. soil. You pull similar stunts in...

phamEng, He might be licensed in one of the other 49 states for all I know but no where does it say which state he is licensed in on his website or profile. During the phone call, I asked him why he just doesn't get reciprocity and stamp things himself and he just said that was something he was...